alt.energy.renewable

Anthony Matonak wrote:
| nicksanspam@ wrote:
|| RW Salnick wrote:
||
||| Build the icehouse, and use it as the heat sink for conventional
||| refrigeration.
| ...
||| Would work great for air conditioning too.
||
|| Not enough ice.
|
| It's just a question of scale, isn't it? One could figure out how
| much ice is needed to keep their house cold throughout the year
| and then build an ice house big enough.
|
| I'm thinking one of those cheap steel buildings the size of a small
| hanger with a foot or so of spray foam insulation on the inside. :)

Erm... My shop is /in/ a small hanger (you can see pix by following
the links at the page below) - and I'm curious as to what you consider
to be a "cheap" building. I'm thinking that just the insulation you've
described would be fairly spendy...

| Any idea of just how much ice would we be talking about?

Ah yes - this is the important question.


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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
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